What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Strategy & Planning, Delivery Ads position at Uber?
About The Role
The Delivery Ads team is on a mission to build and scale Uber's Retail Media Network, enabling merchants on Uber Eats to effectively reach and convert Uber's highly engaged user base. As a Manager, Strategy & Planning, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the global strategy, operating model, and growth roadmap for one of Uber's fastest-growing businesses.
In this role, you won't just be driving strategy-you'll be leading a team. As a people manager, you will develop and coach a group of high-performing strategists and operators, empowering them to deliver impact across global initiatives while growing their careers at Uber.
You'll own and drive high-impact initiatives across global acquisition, advertiser growth, and retention, while working hand-in-hand with Product, GTM, Sales, Marketing, and Data Science to accelerate the future of Delivery Ads. You'll be expected to bring clarity to complexity, inspire your team, and influence senior stakeholders across regions and functions.
This is a highly cross-functional leadership role, ideal for a strategic operator who thrives in ambiguity, scales 0-to-1 programs, and motivates others to achieve outsized impact.
What You'll Do
The Delivery Ads team is on a mission to build and scale Uber's Retail Media Network, enabling merchants on Uber Eats to effectively reach and convert Uber's highly engaged user base. As a Manager, Strategy & Planning, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the global strategy, operating model, and growth roadmap for one of Uber's fastest-growing businesses.
In this role, you won't just be driving strategy-you'll be leading a team. As a people manager, you will develop and coach a group of high-performing strategists and operators, empowering them to deliver impact across global initiatives while growing their careers at Uber.
You'll own and drive high-impact initiatives across global acquisition, advertiser growth, and retention, while working hand-in-hand with Product, GTM, Sales, Marketing, and Data Science to accelerate the future of Delivery Ads. You'll be expected to bring clarity to complexity, inspire your team, and influence senior stakeholders across regions and functions.
This is a highly cross-functional leadership role, ideal for a strategic operator who thrives in ambiguity, scales 0-to-1 programs, and motivates others to achieve outsized impact.
What You'll Do
- Lead and Develop a Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of strategists/operators, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and collaboration
- Shape Global Strategy: Define and lead business strategies that accelerate growth for Uber's Delivery Ads business, working closely with Product, Regional Ops, PMM, Sales, and Data Science
- Be a Thought Partner: Serve as a trusted advisor to Ads leadership and cross-functional executives, using structured thinking and data-driven insights to inform long-term strategy and near-term priorities
- Drive Advertiser Success: Identify opportunities to scale product adoption and advertiser ROI across segments (Enterprise, SMB) and regions by operationalizing GTM plays, incentives, measurement strategies, and enablement
- Operational Excellence: Build strategic frameworks and performance management tools to evaluate success, ensure accountability, and guide resourcing decisions
- Advocate for Merchants: Represent advertiser and merchant needs by synthesizing market trends, competitive signals, and customer insights to influence product and business roadmaps
- Scale What Works: Design repeatable global processes and toolkits that accelerate knowledge sharing and unlock growth at scale
- 5 years' experience in Advertising, Strategy & Ops, Growth Marketing, GTM, Technology Operations or related fields
- 1 year in a manager role, leading direct reports
- Proven track record of owning and delivering complex, cross-functional projects or programs with high business impact
- Strong executive communication and storytelling skills with ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in retail media, ad tech, digital advertising, or related ecosystem
- Experience working in a global or matrixed organization
- Strong business judgment and structured problem-solving approach
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and lead through influence
Salary : $155,000 - $172,000
